Tina:  She didn’t offer to go shopping for that special dress?

Bette:  Ah… that would be a no. I do not think she could have survived a shopping trip with me. I went with a friend and her mom. And I thought my dad was going to faint when he saw me in my dress. It was very revealing and he the thought of every young man in Philadelphia seeing that much of my skin was not to his liking. But he didn’t see it until it was too late to do anything about it. I either went to the prom in that dress or I missed the prom. Fortunately, he decided to give in. After all it was only a one-time event. I think if he had seen any other woman in that dress, he would have loved it. But being his daughter, it was somehow different. And when I look back at the pictures, it was really conservative by today’s standards. It didn’t even show any of my cleavage. It was just backless and showed some of my upper chest. And it had a slit up one side to my mid-thigh. He really didn’t like that part. It was a royal blue color and I looked good in it.

Tina: I’d like to see those pictures sometime. Now anything else I should know about Harriet?

Bette:  No. Same plan as with Gabriel Scott. Ask her a question and then just let her talk. If she gets off topic, ask her something to get her back on track. Hopefully she will give us something which allows us to draw some kind of conclusion to this puzzle.  I think we have a lot of the parts. But what we don’t have is motivation. I hope that we get something on what motivated him to do what he did. Why he decided to pursue Maxine’s whereabouts and then back off once he found her. Why did he send Paris to England?

Tina:  Gabriel said it was for tax purposes. To keep Mary from having taxable income. At least initially.

Bette:  But he did find out that if he did not take a tax deduction, there would be no income for Mary. So why not allow Paris to go to a school in America? There are plenty of boarding schools of high quality in America.